Roshan Parkih is President of the management platform in a partnership with his Chicagoland Smile Group and Shore Capital Partners. Shore and Chicagoland Smile have formed Great Lakes Dental partners.
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Joseph Baptist, Oak Lawn, IL, and his wife, Takumi, had a new baby, Jane, on Aug. 8, 2014. Jane weighed 7 lbs., 10.8 oz. and measured 22 inches at birth. Natanya Marracino, Endodontics, San Francisco, CA, completed the three-part American Board of Endodontics certification process last year and was honored in a ceremony for new Diplomates at the American Association of Endodontists meeting in May.
Dr. Antonia Kolokythas, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ‘04, MS Oral Sciences ’11, and Dr. Matt McKnight, ’11, were part of a Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Team that participated in the Oral Cancer Awareness 5K Walk and Run. Raj Puri, Wood Dale, IL, was named President of the Indian Dental Association of Illinois this past January. Visit www.IndianDental.org for more information. Brian D. Shin opened a new practice, Dental Care of Glen Ellyn, IL.
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Benjamin Lin, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ’07, was elected to the Governing Council of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario for 2015-2016.
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Jeffrey Copeland, Hawthorn Woods, IL, received the Academy of General Dentistry’s Mastership Award, the AGD’s highest honor. To earn it, Dr. Copeland completed 1,100 hours of dental Dr. Jeffrey Copeland, ’08, received the continuing AGD’s highest honor. education. UIC C o l l e g e o f D e n t i s t r y
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Raza A. Hussain, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, was named Section Chief, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Jesse Brown Veterans Administration Medical Center, Chicago. Raza has been affiliated with the Jesse Brown VA and the College’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery since 2005.
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Matt McKnight, Chicago, ran in the Oral Cancer Foundation’s annual Oral Cancer Awareness 5K Walk and Run on May 31 in Redmond Park in Bensenville, IL. Shainal Nagar has opened Sun Family Dental, a family, cosmetic, restorative, and orthodontic dental office in the Milton/Alpharetta area of Georgia. Steven Raphael, Endodontics, Springfield, MO, completed the three-part American Board of Endodontics certification process last year and was honored in a ceremony for new Diplomates at the American Association of Endodontists meeting in May.
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George Barsa has a new practice, Confident Smiles, in Chicago at Belmont and California Avenues. Jason Guerrero, MS Oral Sciences, Chicago, spoke on computer-guided implant surgery at the Chicago Dental Society Northwest Suburban Branch on March 3.
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Jazmine Daye Dillard, Evanston, IL, was quoted in an article about the New Dentist Reception at the Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting in the March/April 2015 CDS Review. Scott Fleming has joined the practice of his
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